Improvement in vapor-burners



T. SIMMONS. Vapor-Surners.

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THOMAS SIMMONS, OF HALIFAX, CANADA, ASSIGNOE OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO ALBERT OLEMEN AND CHARLES T. OLEMEN, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VAPOR-BURNERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,823, dated August 12, 1873; application led June 9, 1873.

To all rwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs SIMMONS, of the city and county of Halifax, in the Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, have invented Improvements in Gas-Burners, of which the following is a specification:

The invention has for its object the more perfect combustion of gas produced from hy drocarbon fluids, or coal, or other products, by the induction of air to the dame at the point of combustion, whereby the combination of oxygen with the llame of the gas results in the production of a more brilliant light. The invention consists of a burner having an upper chamber or retort above the gas-outlets, and projecting rings below to forni 'air-ducts, and a cylindrical air-inductorlittingthereon, whereby the current of air is inducted to the llame at the point of ignition, in combination with a superheater and regulating needle valve to diminish or increase the dow of gas or hydrocarbon uid.

Figure l is an elevation of a gas-burner embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of gas-burner and-air-inductor, shown in section. Fig. 4 is an elevation of the burner without air-inductor. Fig. 5 is an elevation of airinduction cylinder. Fig. Gis a bottom view of the superheater.

A is a tube branching from the stem of the burner, and connecting with a supply {luidtank or gas-pipe. At the lower end of the stem is aregulatin g device to operate a needlevalve, C, by turning the plate B secured to the lower end of the needle, the point of which enters au orifice in the stem, and closes it when the needle is screwed upward by turning the thumb-plate B, and is opened by operation vice versa, thus cutting off or regulating the supply of gas or fluid to the burner. In the top of the burner A is a chamber or retort, D,

above the gas-outlets F, into which retort the hydrocarbon iiuid passes, and, by the heat from the burner, is converted into gas, which passes out under considerable pressure through. a series of small perforations, F, and invites by its pressure a current of air to unite with it at the point of combustion, as hereafter described, imparting to the flame its oxygen. G is the air-induction cylinder, fitting on a projecting ring near the base of the burner, and

. which ring is notched to form ducts H, through which the air passes into a chamber, and thence through ducts or notches I in a projecting ring immediately below the point of. combustion. This current, when once called into action, continues to pass up through the ducts H and I of the inductor, as shown by arrows in the drawings, and impinges with the gas issuing from the perforations E in the burner, producing abrilliant light, which may be increased or diminished by the regulation of the needle-valve, as previously described. J is a cylindrical superheating-plate, ttin g on the burner, and having on its under side radial ribs K, which bear on the top of the airinductor G intermediately between the gasoutlet perforations E.

The application of the burner for coal'gasl consumption requires only the use of the airinductor, the superheater being dispensed with.

I claim as my invention- The burner A', having the chamber D above the outlets F and the notched rings H I below said outlets, and provided with the air inductor G, fitting over said rings, substan tially as and for the purpose shown and de scribed.

THOMAS SIMMONS. Witnesses:

A. PHILIPPRUN, JOHN MoDoNALD. 

